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Prosecutors on Friday asked that former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell be sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, while defense attorneys countered that 4,000 hours of communit y service — and no time behind bars — would be more appropriate. In evening filings, the parties painted dueling pictures of the former governor's wife. By prosecutors' account, Maureen McDonnell "unhesitatingly participated in the scheme to sell the Governor's office to satisfy her desire for a luxurious lifestyle" and showed no remorse for her crimes. By her attorneys' telling, Maureen McDonnell was thrust "into a role that she did not want" and...

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Prosecutors on Friday asked that former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell be sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, while defense attorneys countered that 4,000 hours of communit y service — and no time behind bars — would be more appropriate.
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This year was a nonstop horror show for some in the political class. Aside from President Barack Obama, who presided over his party’s electoral debacle at the federal and state level, the year proved to be the undoing of a long list of characters and...

When their farfetched marriage-gone-bad defense failed to save former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, from guilty verdicts in their corruption trial, I could not help but wonder: Why didn't they take a plea deal when they had the...

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Chris Christie went to campaign last week for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, putting the New Jersey governor in the company of a man who is in almost as...

“It’s so Illinois.”
The tweet picking up steam on the Internet Friday morning was not alluding to the state’s prairie farmlands, Chicago sports teams or even hot dogs without ketchup.
Instead, Illinois immediately popped into one scholar’s mind when...

A nation of predominantly couch-bound television watchers got some bad news tonight, as President Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination and delivered the following line: "America's not about what can be done for us, it's about what can be done...

Just four days before the election, Republican Mitt Romney's backers will hold a fundraiser in President Barack Obama’s hometown to buy last-minute TV airtime in the remaining battleground states, a source close to the campaign said Tuesday. The event is...

Basking in neighboring Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s recall-election victory, conservatives convened on the outskirts of President Barack Obama’s hometown Friday to tout the Wisconsin experience as a model for the fall while listening to prospective...

Friday's column; a continuation of this blog post from Wednesday The party that claims to champion small government is at it again. This month Republican majorities in both chambers in Virginia's Legislature passed one of the strictest mandatory pre-abortion u

It's victory in Virginia day. The WaPo reports: The Virginia House of Delegates voted Wednesday afternoon to amend a proposed bill on ultrasounds before abortions to say that no woman will have to undergo a internal ultrasound involuntarily. The revised ...

The Washington Post reports, Virginia governor no longer fully supports ultrasounds before abortions: Gov. Robert F. McDonnell is backing off his unconditional support for a bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, focusing new attention

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell backed down from a provision in a proposed law that , for all practical purposes, would have required women seeking early-term abortions in his state to have transvaginal ultrasound screenings that involve the insertion of a ...

Critics say new ethics legislation passed by the Virginia General Assembly won't accomplish its main goal: preventing another scandal like the one that engulfed former Gov. Bob McDonnell. Lawmakers passed ethics reform bills in the final minutes of the...

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said in court papers Monday that his conviction on several counts of public corruption was based on an overly broad definition of bribery and a flawed explanation of what constitutes an "official action" by...

Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell has appealed her public corruption convictions. The notice of appeal was sent Monday to the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Former Gov. Bob McDonnell previously appealed his convictions to the...

Virginia's 2015 legislative session is in the books. Lawmakers adjourned Friday after passing legislation at the last minute aimed at tightening the state's ethics rules for public officials and curbing sexual assaults on Virginia's college campuses....

In a story Feb. 20 about the sentencing of former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell, The Associated Press reported erroneously in some versions that she was the first spouse of a governor in modern history to be sentenced to prison on a felony...

About one in five Virginia legislators list having at least $50,000 in personal debt besides a mortgage, an analysis of financial disclosure forms by The Associated Press has found. But state's ethics laws don't currently require lawmakers to offer much...

In the wake of former Gov. Bob McDonnell's conviction on corruption charges, Virginia lawmakers say they are moving to tighten the ethics laws governing public officials' behavior. But when two members of the Virginia Senate leadership were asked how much...